Australian Trivia Only

[Shirley]

No haven't been at bowls just busy & kept forgetting, have a problem with facial skin cancers at the moment should of worn a hat when I was younger, wear one now but a little late damage already done, good that kids have to wear hats at school these days.

[pet-els]

Swan Lake.

PeterH

[Macca]

Swan Lake it was

[pet-els]

Have another go Kay.

PeterH

[Macca]

Om . Who was the boundary rider who first staked a claim to the silver-lead-zinc deposit at present day Broken Hill and what year?

[supersparky]

Great question. I didn't know the chaps name so googled the answer. What a great read I have had. Very interesting.
I will have to leave it to others now to name this bloke.

[Macca]

Someone give us a good Aussie trivia question.

[Greynomad]

OK folks,
Here's a good Aussie question:
A (now deceased) former Liberal then Independent Federal politician (served: 1949-1977) had a direct connection with the Blue Mountains, although they are not in his electorate.
What is the connection?

Bonus point if you can connect him with a well-known Australian poem.

(NOT the one which starts: "The boy stood on the burning deck..."!)

[Shirley]

William Charles Wentworth, known as Bill Wentworth his great g'father led the expedition which found the route across the Blue Mountains in 1813.

Poem Australasia?

[Greynomad]

Shirley,
You have the easy part correct, and no-one has connected him with a poem, so I’ll give it to you.
The poem is “My Country” by Dorothea Mackellar. Bill represented the electorate of Mackellar , named after her father.
Your turn again, Shirley...